Still set in the 19th century, the 1861 novel has been adapted into a slightly more modern drama which creators hope will attract new audiences to it.
That worked so well with Netflix's modern take on Austen's "Persuasion" that was universally panned. I am attracted to period dramas to escape from modernity. I want "stiffness". Anyway what is so "stiffy' about Dickens' "Great Expectations" as it was written?
One sure sign of mental illness is self-loathing. Many of the Britons have it in spades.
In balance, the British Empire was one of the great civilizers of the world. India owes everything to the British Empire, as do other countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya, and may more. There is nothing for the British people to be ashamed of. The British Empire did far, far more good than harm.
Well, just more reason to watch British classics on YouTube or elsewhere instead of the woke pablum the BBC cranks out these days. On BritBox, I recently watched a 1982 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles with Tom Baker, very well done and still a good watch.
The British Empire, like all the European empires, was created by desperadoes and ambitious, frustrated peasants. Not by persons of privilege.
Not - ‘built on the lies of privileged white men’.
The best parable of truth of colonialism was, of course, written by Kipling. “The Man Who Would Be King” lays it out.
The point here is that it was common knowledge because everyone in Victorian England received educations steeped in diversity, inclusion and equity - even common criminals. It was common for people of that era to discuss white privilege of men. Dickens was one of those men that massively profited from the misuse and treatment of black and brown people. We need not discuss Dicken’s treatment of women, particularly trans women. He was a transphobe and homophobe in addition to being misogynistic and xenophobic. It’s probably best that his collective works be burned and any productions derived from said works be banned.
The British empire was so wonderful that the founding fathers all wanted to remain a part of it.
Dickens was enough of a Marxist, in my mind.
In every society the ignoramuses slowly insert themselves into positions of power...and they slowly ruin said society.
Hail King Biden!
I’m hoping that the more obnoxious they get, the sooner they will be gone.
Dickens was far better at this than they will ever be.
I few years ago I bought up a bunch of academic editions of classic literature, when all the people with the nice Ivy league educations were busily decolonializing their bookshelves. Funded it by trading and selling my copies of the Twilight series, and whatnot. It started when I noticed that an anthology required for a class was greatly inferior in quality to a much older edition that I had bought, trying to save some money.
I guess that says something, when even a Stephanie Meyer fan has better taste than to read woke drivel.
Of course the other thing they like to do is to make the good characters out to be homos.